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Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 20 Jan. 2025
The post-pandemic shopping boom has ended, and many stores that were on a downward trajectory before 2020 are now headed back down that path to bankruptcy as normalcy returns to the retail industry.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
The researchers found that exhaling through the nose caused infectious particles to be deflected downward, dispersing them more vertically and less horizontally.
—New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Their design uses two arms that secure your wheels by reaching over them and putting downward pressure on your tires to keep the bike locked in place on a metal tray.
—Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 20 Jan. 2025
The post-pandemic shopping boom has ended, and many stores that were on a downward trajectory before 2020 are now headed back down that path to bankruptcy as normalcy returns to the retail industry.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
Adverb
Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there.
—Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
The researchers found that exhaling through the nose caused infectious particles to be deflected downward, dispersing them more vertically and less horizontally.
—New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Downward.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downward. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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